Sharm el-Sheikh ( Egypt ) - (AFP) - Pressure is mounting on Egypt on Tuesday to release its most famous prisoner, Alaa Abdel- Fattah. Awful."

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz appealed for Alaa's release from Sharm el-Sheikh, saying, "There should be a decision. It must be possible to release him so that his hunger strike does not end in death."

"The situation is very tense and we should be afraid that this will lead to terrible results," he added.

The UN rapporteur on freedom of assembly called on Tuesday afternoon for Alaa's release. "I join the calls for the immediate release of Alaa Abdel-Fattah, whose life is in danger and who have been prostrated for years because of his exercise of his legitimate right to demonstrate," Clement Voll wrote on Twitter.

A few hours ago, the spokeswoman for the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani, said in a press statement in Geneva that the High Commissioner, Volker Türk, "deeply regrets that the Egyptian authorities have not yet released the blogger and activist whose life is in great danger."

"We are very concerned about his health," especially since the activist's family "has not been able to contact him in the past two days," she added.

She explained that Turk discussed the case of Alaa Abdel-Fattah with the Egyptian authorities on Friday, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, discussed his case with the Egyptian authorities on the sidelines of the climate conference held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

"Abdel-Fattah is in great danger. His water strike puts his life in danger," Türk said in a statement.

"My office and other UN human rights mechanisms have raised the case of Abdel Fattah and other people arbitrarily deprived of their liberty and imprisoned after unfair trials several times," he added.

In an indication of the sensitivity of the issue in a country that is regularly accused of violating human rights, United Nations security was forced on Tuesday to remove a member of the Egyptian parliament from a by-session held on the sidelines of the Climate Change Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, after the representative tried to boycott Sanaa Seif, the human rights activist and sister of Alaa Abdel-Fattah, and prevented her. Who responded to him and attacked her severely, according to journalists from France Press.

Representative Amr Darwish, who is loyal to the authority, said that Alaa Abdel-Fattah is "an Egyptian citizen, and he is a criminal prisoner, not a politician. Why do you seek help from Western countries?" He added that Alaa "assaulted his country's army and police," indicating that he did not deserve mercy.

The Egyptian-British activist, one of the symbols of the 2011 revolution and whom President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi regularly criticizes in his speeches, was arrested in 2019 and sentenced to five years in prison in 2021 on charges of spreading false news for retweeting a tweet referring to the death of a prisoner in a prison.

At a press conference she held in Sharm El-Sheikh, where she is preparing to press for her brother's release, Sanaa Seif said that her family fears that the Egyptian authorities will "force" Alaa Abdel-Fattah to feed and that they "reject" any measure that takes place "against his will."

She explained that these fears increased after statements on Monday by Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, in which he confirmed that her brother was "receiving the necessary care" and by French President Emmanuel Macron, in which he quoted Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi as "a pledge to preserve his health."

Saif said she could not imagine her brother "now being forced to feed and put on a bed and handcuffed" for this purpose.

Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who announced a full hunger strike last week, stopped drinking water Sunday, coinciding with the opening of the Climate Conference to demand his freedom.

His mother, a professor of mathematics at Cairo University, went again on Tuesday to Wadi al-Natrun prison, located in a desert area 100 kilometers north of Cairo, in an attempt to obtain any evidence that her son was still alive after she spent more than 10 hours on Monday in front of the prison without being able to obtain On a handwritten letter reassuring her.

Alaa's younger sister, Mona Seif, said on Tuesday evening in a tweet on Twitter that her mother had not received anything new that could reassure her.

And she wrote, "Like yesterday, there is no answer, no explanation, and there is no need to confirm that Alaa is alive and conscious."

On Tuesday morning, Laila Soueif made an appeal on Facebook to the British Prime Minister and world leaders who are in Sharm El-Sheikh.

And she wrote, "The Egyptian authorities, who have a lot of blood on their hands, probably think that they can get away with a new crime, and they may be right. What would happen if a new death occurred in a prison cell?"

And she added, "Therefore, I address my words to others, to the British Prime Minister and all the leaders of the countries gathered in Sharm El-Sheikh. The Egyptian authorities are your friend and they are under your protection and not your adversary. If Alaa dies, you too will have blood on your hands while you claim that you represent countries in which there is every life." have value.”

On Monday morning, three Egyptian female journalists started a hunger strike at their union's headquarters in the heart of Cairo, to demand the release of Abdel Fattah.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron raised his issue with the Egyptian President in Sharm el-Sheikh on the sidelines of the "COP 27" conference.

According to Amnesty International, 766 prisoners of conscience have been released since the Egyptian authorities reactivated the Presidential Amnesty Committee last April.
But 1,540 others have been arrested and imprisoned since then, including Sherif El-Rouby, a left-wing activist who was remanded after his release, according to the international human rights organization.
Alaa Abdel-Fattah obtained British citizenship in prison in April through his British-born mother.